The French Finance Minister has told the French-German Business Forum that “Europe has to become an empire again.” Speaking candidly to the assembled delegates, the minister spoke to Macron’s vision of a united Europe, saying unification as an Empire has to occur “in the next 25 years.”
Describing a federal European empire as “European sovereignty” he told the conference that whilst it should be built “brick by brick,” “rapid progress” is needed. “We should be looking at weeks and months much more than years.” With Merkel announcing her support for a European army last week, the building of federal European sovereignty brick by brick looks well under way…
Read the extraordinary opening paragraphs to the Finance Minister’s speech in full below:
On Tuesday, EU Commissioners made the recommendation that even in the event of no deal, UK citizens would be placed on the visa-exempt list for short stays across the Schengen Area for up to 90 days.
“The European Commission has proposed to the EU legislator to exempt UK nationals from visa requirements for short-term stays”.
Turns out kids will still be able to frolic around Europe visa free, on their summer holidays. Another Remainer lie bites the dust.
Hungarians have rejected EU quotas for mandatory migrant resettlement in a referendum last night. Eurosceptic President Viktor Orban scored an overwhelming majority of 92.3% to 1.4% but the turnout of 42% was below the 50% needed for the vote to change Hungarian law and the National Election Committee has now declared the result void. Interesting that the Hungarian vote to join the EU in 2003 saw a turnout of only 45.6% when rules were different. The EU, death by a thousand referenda…
Leaders of every EU member state bar Britain will meet in Bratislava in mid-September to “continue a political reflection” post-Brexit. The event, which was scheduled after the last meeting in Brussels, is ostensibly for the leaders to debate “further reforms in line with our strategic agenda”. This will almost certainly include extensive discussions around Brexit. Frustratingly both Merkel and Juncker don’t want to engage the UK in any of these negotiations until Article 50 is triggered, that the meeting is happening in the first place should be an encouraging sign to Brexiteers worried about a betrayal. Presumably MI6 will be earning the taxpayers’ shilling and the Foreign Office will still be fully aware of the EU’s strategy…
Mary Creagh has come up with a brilliant environmental justification for staying in the EU. Apparently we have Brussels to thank for “seals and even dolphins making regular appearances down river… where once it was dangerous to swim or swallow the water, it is now safe for humans and wildlife”. Righto…
Does Creagh’s argument that “the EU played a huge part in these environmental improvements” stack up? Well, the EU’s $100 billion-a-year Emissions Trade Scheme infamously bankrolled a scam allowing Chinese and Indian firms to generate a harmful greenhouse gas called HFC-23, then claim money from European taxpayers to destroy it. The Environmental Investigation Agency called it the “biggest environmental scandal in history”. Even if EU membership means we can drink from the Thames, not sure that makes up for the millions of taxpayer cash blown on a greenhouse gas scam…
Yesterday a senior Eurocrat argued it is “time for an EU ban on referenda”, today the same website has published an interview with the Vice President of the European Parliament in which he claims the PM’s renegotiation is not legally binding after all. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff says Brussels “clearly went too far” during its negotiations with Dave and suggests the deal could be altered if we stay in the EU:
“their agreement is in no way a document of the European Union, but a text of hybrid character, which is unspecified and not legally binding”
Incidentally, when was the last time the PM or anyone from the Remain campaign mentioned the renegotiation?
